Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for use by the University Archives in developing appraisal guidelines for scientific and technological materials

Urban Universities Program

to establish "The Andrew W. Mellon Fund," the income of which is to be used to strengthen and enhance the quality of liberal learning at the University

Andrew W. Mellon Fund - Endowment

for support of a fellowship program that will assist scholars to make greater use of the manuscript collection in its Vatican Film Library

Fellowship Program

to support the development of an electronic edition of the Latin text known as the Norman Anonymous

Electronic Edition of Norman Anonymous

to support the development of standards, services, and scholarly tools that would enhance the use of digitized medieval manuscripts

Developing a Transcription Tool for Digitized Manuscripts 

to support development of a software tool for creating electronic editions of pre-modern texts

SCEDiP: A Web-Based Application for Scholarly Collation, Editing, and Digital Publishing

to support research on international models of artistic leadership in symphony orchestras

Research Project

to strengthen artistic and administrative performance

Symphony Orchestra Program

supplemental award for permanent endowment

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

to support on-site consultation and participation in the Symphony Orchestra Forum

support of the Institute of Orchestral Conducting

Institute of Orchestral Conducting

to support the New Dance Horizons project

New Dance Horizons 2016

to support planning for a census of 18th-century British periodicals

18th Century British Periodicals Census

to support further preliminary work for a census of 18th-century British periodicals

18th Century British Periodicals Census - Part III

to support further planning for a census of 18th-century British periodicals

18th Century British Periodicals Census - Part II

to support a residency program and curricular collaboration with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Residency Program

to support the planning efforts to design a collaborative project among three historically black colleges (Saint Paul’s, Saint Augustine’s, and Voorhees) and an Appalachian institution (the University of the South)

Institution Building - Collaborative Faculty Development

to strengthen its artistic and administrative capacity

Opera Program

toward costs of improving specific aspects of its operations

Opera Project

to support JSTOR membership and train librarians at Saint Augustine’s and Barber Scotia Colleges in its use

JSTOR Membership

Three American Operas

to support the development and presentation of new and recent American operas


New Works, Bold Voices

to support the New Works, Bold Voices program

New Works, Bold Voices Incubator

to support the first phase of the development of a new performing edition of John Corigliano’s opera Ghosts of Versailles

The Ghosts of Versailles Opera

to support the disruption of established practices around the commissioning of new work


Advancing the Future of American Opera

to support productions of new America operas

Artistic Initiatives for New American Operas

to support productions of Troilus and Cressida and Ghosts of Versailles

Productions of "Troilus and Cressida" and "Ghosts of Versailles"

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the Louisiana State University Press

University Press Program

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

to support an interdisciplinary initiative that would study the problematic of urban segregation, with an emphasis on St. Louis

Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities: The Divided City

to renew support for an interdisciplinary initiative that would study the problem of urban segregation, with an emphasis on St. Louis

The Divided City 2022

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Murray Louis Dance Company

Modern Dance Program

to support a residency program for and curricular collaboration with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

Faculty Support

to support the conversion of library card catalogs to electronic format

Library Cataloguing 

to strengthen faculty and curricula in the arts and humanities

Black Colleges Program

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

to support tutorial and advising programs

Tutorial & Advising Programs 

to support strengthening selected aspects of its programs

Institution Building - Curriculum Revision

to support cataloguing activities at its Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

to support renewal of a bridge program to enhance student learning and retention

Student Learning and Retention

to support the cataloging of digitized medieval manuscripts

Cataloging Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

to enhance student learning and retention

Student Learning and Retention 

IB - Summer Bridge Program

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 